ymgve posted:

boy do I have a short story for you

TACD posted:

lol gently caress

the concept of mind uploading was exciting and cool to me many years ago and the pipe-dream fantasy of helping bring it about was one reason I ended up studying computational neuroscience

then it became obvious that if it ever was invented it would be the most horrific unimaginable hell ever unleashed on humanity. literal immortal gods reigning for eternity over infinite slave clones

so thank gently caress the human brain is such a insane complicated mess that I don’t think it’ll ever be feasible

Waffle House posted:

I genuinely see SA as one of the world's only places where true megalomaniacally smart people feel comfortable posting.

I'm a big smart boi

TACD posted:

lol gently caress

the concept of mind uploading was exciting and cool to me many years ago and the pipe-dream fantasy of helping bring it about was one reason I ended up studying computational neuroscience

then it became obvious that if it ever was invented it would be the most horrific unimaginable hell ever unleashed on humanity. literal immortal gods reigning for eternity over infinite slave clones

so thank gently caress the human brain is such a insane complicated mess that I don’t think it’ll ever be feasible

PokeJoe posted:

sa is good because you can go to the airsoft forum and learn about airsoft

30.5 Days posted:

Waffle House posted:

I genuinely see SA as one of the world's only places where true megalomaniacally smart people feel comfortable posting and being themselves at their core, down to expressing their deepest possible despairs, it feels best to be comfortable with that aspect of myself and make everybody comfortable, especially when we're in the specifically reputed brainworms-ing subforum despairing

tokin opposition posted:

Maybe your brain won't, I'm busy smoking weed and posting so my brain can be simplified enough to run on a ti-83. Smooooooth as silk

Waffle House posted:

I genuinely see SA as one of the world's only places where true megalomaniacally smart people feel comfortable posting and being themselves at their core, down to expressing their deepest possible despairs, it feels best to be comfortable with that aspect of myself and make everybody comfortable, especially when we're in the specifically reputed brainworms-ing subforum despairing

also: Pardon the personal tangents, here, but for anyone curious: I did actually get plenty of help, and it wasn't just professional; medication and sessioned therapy alone weren't going to fix the habits of a very anxious and destroyed person who felt that way and let it get to them over the course of years. Even with help, if you ever feel like you teeter towards that, you do a lot to get back in line. I did basically almost split my personality trying to make sense of, no poo poo, just how awful everything had become in the world, and had entirely taken it on myself to a very unhealthy level, and IMO it very much reflected in my posting.

Obviously I don't take any of the probes or locker rooming personally, this is SA, we do hold these standards for our own reasons of personal survival, and I was straight up crazyposting. I've successfully divorced myself from that specific material and all its curiosities unless for some bizarre reason it actually does manifest, but I did strike weird concepts while I was toeing around the Clint Mansell point, so I might post about them if people like ramjets and other fun high velocity physics

If you ever find yourself stuck as crazy, don't be afraid when you are there, but do fight it. Self supremacy is everyone's doctrine, and it works so well that we are a functional society.

Waffle House posted:

Honestly bad news: we are zero day’d right now, and the point of no return was decades ago, long before its public hint-reveal at Neuralink.

Havana syndrome is human experimentation, with machine learning bedside.

People on this very forum are acutely aware, but sadly behind the bridle of classified and hating it.

Sorry folks, we beat ourselves real good and aren’t winning at it.

TACD posted:

lol gently caress

the concept of mind uploading was exciting and cool to me many years ago and the pipe-dream fantasy of helping bring it about was one reason I ended up studying computational neuroscience

then it became obvious that if it ever was invented it would be the most horrific unimaginable hell ever unleashed on humanity. literal immortal gods reigning for eternity over infinite slave clones

so thank gently caress the human brain is such a insane complicated mess that I don’t think it’ll ever be feasible

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

To be fair, it would most likely be hell for the uploaded brain as well.

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Waffle House posted:

I genuinely see SA as one of the world's only places where true megalomaniacally smart people feel comfortable posting and being themselves at their core, down to expressing their deepest possible despairs, it feels best to be comfortable with that aspect of myself and make everybody comfortable, especially when we're in the specifically reputed brainworms-ing subforum despairing

also: Pardon the personal tangents, here, but for anyone curious: I did actually get plenty of help, and it wasn't just professional; medication and sessioned therapy alone weren't going to fix the habits of a very anxious and destroyed person who felt that way and let it get to them over the course of years. Even with help, if you ever feel like you teeter towards that, you do a lot to get back in line. I did basically almost split my personality trying to make sense of, no poo poo, just how awful everything had become in the world, and had entirely taken it on myself to a very unhealthy level, and IMO it very much reflected in my posting.

Obviously I don't take any of the probes or locker rooming personally, this is SA, we do hold these standards for our own reasons of personal survival, and I was straight up crazyposting. I've successfully divorced myself from that specific material and all its curiosities unless for some bizarre reason it actually does manifest, but I did strike weird concepts while I was toeing around the Clint Mansell point, so I might post about them if people like ramjets and other fun high velocity physics

If you ever find yourself stuck as crazy, don't be afraid when you are there, but do fight it. Self supremacy is everyone's doctrine, and it works so well that we are a functional society.

sounds like heaven to me

but how are horses of a different color then?????

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Waffle House posted:

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey bud, we aren't pranking you. We aren't gaslighting you. Your brain isn't working good and you need to talk to your doctor.

endlessmonotony posted:

While the previous was clearly their brain badly loving up, this might just be their normal. A doctor should be informed anyway (assuming they're somewhere care functions at all), yes, but assuming this is a state anybody can or should do anything about is being a bit of a dipshit.

Not the craziest poster on these here forums, C-SPAM might as well explicitly be the refuge of people with hosed-up brains. Nowhere close to the biggest rear end in a top hat.

Inceltown posted:

https://twitter.com/ReeseW/status/1480953798013054976

Facebook Aunt posted:

Hey bud, we aren't pranking you. We aren't gaslighting you. Your brain isn't working good and you need to talk to your doctor.

Often Abbreviated posted:

*observes the absolute state of the SA forums*

"obviously this is where all the smart people are"

Azathoth posted:

Hey folks, I'm going to put my mod hat on here and ask everyone to please not discuss Waffle House's overall mental state here. I understand that folks here are bringing it up from a good place, but this isn't a place to try to convince someone to get mental health help. It's the kind of thing that can turn sour real quick, and I want to avoid that.

That being said, Waffle House, please understand that what I am saying next I say without any irony or concern trolling, and I say with complete sincerity: what you have been writing in this thread lately is borderline incomprehensible. People are expressing frustration because we cannot understand what you are saying, not out of any attempt to troll or gaslight you.

So, to avoid people here feeling the need to discuss your mental state, I need you to start posting more comprehensibly. If that's something that you're unable to do, I need you to take a break until you can get back to that point.

Waffle House posted:

size of our brains: megalomaniacal

Waffle House posted:

size of our brains: megalomaniacal

posting: terrible

lowtax: dead

Azathoth posted:

Hey folks, I'm going to put my mod hat on here and ask everyone to please not discuss Waffle House's overall mental state here. I understand that folks here are bringing it up from a good place, but this isn't a place to try to convince someone to get mental health help. It's the kind of thing that can turn sour real quick, and I want to avoid that.

That being said, Waffle House, please understand that what I am saying next I say without any irony or concern trolling, and I say with complete sincerity: what you have been writing in this thread lately is borderline incomprehensible. People are expressing frustration because we cannot understand what you are saying, not out of any attempt to troll or gaslight you.

So, to avoid people here feeling the need to discuss your mental state, I need you to start posting more comprehensibly. If that's something that you're unable to do, I need you to take a break until you can get back to that point.

Waffle House posted:

It is weirdly honorable to have a mod:

"Waffle we're glad you got help but would you please refrain from NOT shitposting"

Azathoth posted:

Eh, to clarify, shitposting is not a crime but when I see multiple people in here expressing genuine concern for you and I have a hard time making sense of what you're saying and people say the same, I feel the need to step in.

That said, I am glad you've gotten help and I'm glad you're posting here. As someone who has had their own mental health struggles, it's good to see you coming out the other side.

Waffle House posted:

Dude I can imagine what the reports looked like. "Waffle House is posting apocalypses, mods please probe"

Azathoth posted:

lol it's not quite that bad, but this thread usually doesn't generate any reports so when i do see folks reporting stuff here, it's usually better to peek in sooner rather than later

in any case, sorry for stopping the flow of the discussion with boring mod stuff, I'll step out now

Butt Discussin posted:

I more or less understood what Waffle House was saying. It’s documented fact that Russian/etc AIs and action groups are “leading the discussion” on social media to foment discord and break up the culture of the USA, promote anti vaccine conspiracies, etc, in ways that could be construed as hacking people.

The main wrong part was just that he or any other individual person was at all special in this process. Even the psychosocial fragmentation of American culture itself isn’t that special - it’s happened to every other dying empire.